Effie and Her Friends

Effie and Her Friends is a historical fiction novel set in South Alabama in the '40s and '50s. The story is about the growing friendship between a girl and a boy, a black and a white, a child of a tenant farmer and a child of an owner; my childhood experiences from my adult's perspective. It is a friendship that quietly, yet openly, teaches personal Christian values such as respecting differences, personal self-worth and value, sharing, kindness, and empathy. Some parts of the story are tol...